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...hrer, Christmas, 1938, in which year he twice overran borders in order to bring back German territory into the Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions by Authors Alfred Rosenberg, Joseph Goebbels and Ernst Roehm; a German translation of Henry Ford's My Life and Work, inscribed by piano-thumping Ernst ("Putzi") Hanf-staengl, "Mit alien besten Wunschen fur 1924." Price...
...armed intellectuals come to submit to the leadership of this raving dervish?" Some of them, says Heiden, did not submit; many of them openly and disrespectfully opposed him. But Hitler, like Roehm, Hess and Göring, was a "betrayed" soldier (and a brave one, Heiden insists); like Rosenberg and Goebbels, he was a frustrated man of questionable intellect. Few, if any, of his fellow "intellectuals" could so absorb themselves in the life of the Party, so readily sacrifice to this chosen duty the pleasures and comforts of life. Above all, none could so meticulously appraise the exact temper...
Power. By 1936 Himmler had control of the entire German police system. Göring, who had been in command of the Prussian State Police, became boss of Germany's Four Year Plan and devoted most of his time to the growing Air Force. Captain Ernest Roehm, who had been in command of the SA (Naziism's brown-shirted street fighters), was shot during Hitler's and Himmler's 1934 blood purge of radical Nazis (meaning those who subscribed to the Socialism in National Socialism...
Died. Viktor Lutze, 53, one-eyed Chief of Staff of the Nazi Storm Troops since the 1934 purging of Captain Ernst Roehm; of injuries when his car struck another; in Potsdam...
...knew you had a budget of $150,000 a year and lots of women and a big car. But I must say you paid off. It was you, wasn't it, who killed Gregor Strasser? And you who did the stool-pigeoning in the blood purge that sent Roehm and those other friends of Hitler down here...